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Midnight Channel Drops Their First Vocal Single 'Must Be Nice' — Listen Now
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Midnight Channel
Midnight Channel—the genre-defying jazz collective from Lethbridge, Alberta—has released their brand new single “Must Be Nice,” now streaming everywhere. The sultry, Latin jazz-inspired track marks a bold new direction for the band as their first-ever vocal release, turning loneliness into something lush, danceable, and strangely comforting. Built around a mid-tempo cha-cha rhythm, “Must Be Nice” blends soft acoustic guitar, warm horn arrangements, and layered percussion with a stunning detour in the bridge you have to hear to believe. The result ...
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Backgrounder: Count Basie's Have a Nice Day
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Sammy Nestico arranged nine Count Basie studio albums, starting in 1969: Straight Ahead (1969) Standing Ovation (1969) Good Time Blues (1970) Have a Nice Day (1971) Bing 'n' Basie (1972) Basie Big Band (1975) Prime Time (1977) Warm Breeze (1981) 88 Basie Street (1983) One of his breeziest was Have a Nice Day (Daybreak). As with all of Sammy's Basie albums, Have a Nice Day was a finger-snapper packed with catchy mid-tempo swingers. The band featured Paul Cohen, Sonny Cohn, ...
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Bill Evans Videos: Nice, 1978
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On July 16, 1978, pianist Bill Evans performed at La Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice France. He was backed by Marc Johnson on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. The trio played four songs before being joined by baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams for two more. The performance was captured by République Française TV. The group played outdoors and yet, as you'll hear, the microphones were placed so strategically that the music sounds as if it were recorded in ...
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Nice Jazz Festival and Jazz at Juan les Pins 2018
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All About Jazz
The Cote d'Azur, France's legendary playground, celebrated the first jazz festival 70 years ago but the concept did not become an annual event until the early 1970s. Set beside the impossibly blue Mediterranean, jazz festivals are celebrated all along the coast from Cannes to Monte Carlo. Here we look at two major events in July, Nice Jazz Festival and Jazz at Juan les Pins, Antibes. The first jazz festival was organized by Jacques Herbey in Nice in February ...
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Celso Fonseca: Like Nice
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the late 1950s, when the bossa nova was first emerging in Rio de Janeiro, the music was all about a feathery touch. The acoustic guitar had to sound barely strummed, as if the breeze were whistling through the strings. The vocals had to sound almost whispered. Early masters such as João Gilberto, Johnny Alf, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfá and others wrote songs meant to sound ethereal, like a lover's breathy secret. In the early 1960s, when producer ...
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HBO's Vinyl Provides Classic Tracks With Nice Bump On Spotify
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HypeBot
The Grammys aren't the only TV show that provide a bump on Spotify. HBO’s Vinyl, which premiered on Sunday, chronicles the music business in '70s New York. The Spotify data team measured streams before and after the premiere and found every track included in the episode experienced a streaming bump. Taking the top spot was Ty Talor’s “Cha Cha Twist” with an increase of 150%, followed by Nasty Bits’ “Rotten Apple” and David Johansen’s “Stranded In The Jungle," both with a ...
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Mark Lopeman: "Nice Work"
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Two years ago, saxophonist and clarinetist Mark Lopeman released a beautiful album that completely escaped my radar. I'm just glad I'm catching up to it now. Recorded in June 2011, the album is Nice Work If You Can Get It and features Brandon Lee (tp), Noah Bless (tb), Mark Lopeman (ts,sop,cl), Ted Rosenthal (p), Nicki Parrott (b) and Tim Horner (d). If you're unfamiliar with Lopeman, I can tell you that every song, every arrangement and every note that comes ...
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Nice Jazz Festival to Launch Miami Edition October 2012
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Chris M. Slawecki
The Miami Nice Jazz Festival, an extension of the internationally celebrated Nice France Jazz Festival, one of Europe’s largest and most significant jazz events of its kind, is scheduled to take place for the first time in the United States this fall. The festival, finding its stateside home in downtown Miami, will be a three day jazz celebration beginning on October 26, 2012. The first Miami Nice Jazz Festival is a partnership between Sister Cities Nice, France and Miami, Florida, ...
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The Doors: "She Smells so Nice"
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JamBase
“THE YEAR OF THE DOORS" UNDERWAY WITH 40TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE OF ICONIC L.A. WOMAN ALBUM The Doors have officially debuted the first new, completely unreleased song in 40 years, “She Smells So Nice." The bluesy track captures the band—organist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore and late singer Jim Morrison—joyfully barreling through the full-throttle original. Bruce Botnick, the album's co-producer with the band, recently made the discovery while reviewing the L.A. Woman session tapes for the 40th anniversary ...
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Erin Dickins Releases "Nice Girls"
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Cyber PR
A founding member of MANHATTAN TRANSFER, the original jazz vocal group, Ms. Dickins continues to enchant audiences throughout the world. She has performed and recorded with Bette Midler, The Talking Heads, Jaco Pastorius, James Taylor, Ashford & Simpson, Leonard Cohen, Barry Manilow and James Brown, to name but a few. NICE GIRLS is her first solo album, just released on Champagne Records, and produced and arranged by Jesse Frederick, with Rob Mounsey and Nick Vincent. A virtual dream team of ...
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